Monday, April 23, 2012

Dock Rats! - Any advice?

It looks like I´m really stuck at the quest "Dock Rats!". You have to repair 8 docks which are offshore and you start right next to an enemy base. The docks are additionally protected by towers. I don´t even manage to repair one of the docks and I always get smashed by a huge enemy army after a while. So, I guess I need your help. Should I rush to Age 4 and destroy the enemy base with ballistas and hippokons (or whatever they´re called) and head to the docks afterwards? Or try another tactic?

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The quest is pretty easy. You don't need to go to Age 4 at all to complete it. Just put a fortress in your base early in age 3 to protect your base and roll out with some rams and an army to cover them to take out the enemy base.

|||Easiest way is to produce a handful of toxotes to protect your base in the early game, then rush to age 3, and finally mass inf/tox/cav whatever you prefer to take down the AI. You don't need to go age 4.
|||I just completed the quest. Thanks guys :)
|||I Finished it in age 2. I just made a couple of transports anda fewtriremes to absorb the tower fire. I even did the argos cow quest on that one as the cow happened to be on on the shallow pathways between the docks. I completely ignored my base which got attacked and all villagers killed. My micro was mostly spent in avoiding the tower fire and moving to next dock to repair as fast as possible. You do have to sacrifice a couple of triremes to prevent the towers from shooting villagers or transports. If you micro carefully, you will end up with about 4 triremes that are near death by the time you finish the quest.|||All you need is one or two fire boats/triremes with a fishing boat behind them to repair as they take fire from the towers. Once you kill the tower repair the dock with your fishing boat.

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